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American ballads and folk songs [music]

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Main title:
American ballads and folk songs [music] / collected & compiled by John A. Lomax & Alan Lomax.
Imprint:
New York : Macmillan, 1962, c1934.
Collation:
xxxix,625p ; 25cm.
Notes:
Melody line only.
Contents:
Adieu to Bon County; Ain' no mo' cane on de Brazis; Alabama bound; All the pretty little horses; Alla en el Rancho Grande; Amazing grace; Arizona; The Arkansas traveller; Aurore Pradere; Bad man ballad; Ballad of Davy Crockett; Ballad of the Erie Canal; Ye ballade of Ivan Petrofsky Skevar; De ballit of de boll weevil; The banks of Pamanaw; The bear in the hill; Bear the news, Mary; Beautiful; Benny Heavens, oh!; Big Jim; Bill Martin & Elsa Speed; Billy Boy; Billy the Kid; The black ball line; Black Betty; Black-eyed Susie; De black gal; Blin' man stood on de way an' cried; Blow the man down; The Boston come-all-ye; Braddock's defeat; Brigham Young; The buccaneers;.Bucking Bronco; The buffalo skinners; The bull-whacker; Bung yer eye; Burges; Captain Robert Kidd; Casey Jones; Charley Snyder; The 'Cholly' blues; Coming around the horn; The company cook; The Connecticut peddlar; Constitution & guerriere; Cornfield holler; Cotton Field song; Cotton-eyed Joe; Cowboy boasting chants; Cowboy to pitching bronco; The cowboy's dream; Cowboys' gettin'-up holler; Criole Candjo; Crossing the plains; Crows in the garden; Teh Cryderville jail; Cuatro Palomitas blancas; Cumberland gap; Damn the Filipinos;.Darky Sunday School; Darlin'; Da's all right, baby; Dat lonesome stream; The 'Dead man's chest'; The death of Jack Hilton; Deep river; Dese bones gwine to rise again; Destroyer life; Dink's blues; Dirty mistreatin' women; Dives & Laz'us; Dixie; Down in the valley; The dreary black hills; Drink that rot gut; Teh drunkard's doom; El Abandonado; El amor que te Tenia; The E-r-i-e; Erie Canal; Every night when the sun goes in; The factory girl; Fare thee well, Babe; Few days; Fifteen years on the Erie Canal; The fishes; The flying cloud; Foller de drinkin' gou'd; Frankie & Albert; Frog went a-courtin'; From the chuck wagon; The gal I left behind me; Gerry's rocks; Get up, Jack! John, sit down!; The gilla monster; Git along, little Dogies;.Go way f'om mah window; Goin' home; Going to Boston; Good ol' mountain dew; Good old rebel; Good-by, Mother; Good-by, Old Paint; Good-by, Pretty Mama; Great God-a'mighty; Greer County; De grey goose; Groun' hog; Gwineter harness in de mornin' soon; Hallelujah, bum again; The hammer song; Hard times; Hard to be a n****r; Hard trials; The hard-working miner; Hardly think I will; Healin' waters; Hell & heaven; Hell in Texas; The hearse song; Heave away; Theheavy-hipted woman; The highly educated man; Hinky dinky, Parley-voo?; Hold onAbraham; Honey, take a whiff on me; I love little Willie; I wish I was a mole in the ground; Ida red; An Idaho cowboy dance; If you want to know where the privates are; In town;.Jack Wrack; Jesse James; Jim Haggerty's story; Joe Bowers; John Brown's body; John Harty; John Henry; Johnny come down to Hilo; Julie Ann Johnson; Jumpin' Judy; Just form Dawson; The killer; Lay dis body down; Levee Camp 'holler'; 'Ligion so sweet; Little Brown jug; Little gal at our house; The little Mohee; Liza Jane; Long gone; Long time ago; Lost Jimmie Whalen; Louisiana girls; Low bridge, everybody down; Lulu; Man goin' round; The man on the flying trapeze; Many t'ousand go; Michie Preval; De midnight special; Mike; Moanin'; Mon, member, mone; Mustang Gray; My Li'l John Henry; My yallow gal; Nachul-born Easman; Never said a mumbalin' word;.Now our meeting's over; Oh, lawd, how long?; The old bachelor; Old bill; Theold Chizzum trail; Old Dan Tucker; The old grey goose; Old Joe Clarke; Ol' John Brown; Ol' mother Hare; Ol' rattler; O meech-e-gan; The other shore; Ou Som Souroucou; Paddy works on the Erie; Paper of pins; Parting freinds; Pattin'; Pick a bale o' cotton; Po' boy; Po' Laz'us; Polly Williams; Poor lonesome cowboy; Quantrell; Rabbit hash; The raging can-all; Railing Bill; Raise a rukus tonight; Rattle snake; Red river shore; Reason I stay on job so long; Red iron ore; Remon; The Rio Grande; A rookie's lament; Rosie; The roving gambler; Roy Bean; Run, n****r, run!; Rye whisky; Salanadou; Sam Bass; Sam Hall; Sandy Lan'; Set down, servant; Shack Bully holler;.The Shanty-boy & the farmer's son; Shenandoah; Shoo, Shoo, shoo-lye; Shoot the buffalo; Shortenin' bread; Shorty George; Shot my pistol in de heart of town; Siege of Plattsburg; Snagtooth Sal; Sourwood Mountain; Spanish Johnny; Stagolee; The stampede; Steel laying holler; Stewball; Sugar babe; Susan van Dusan; Sweet Betsy from Pike; Swing low, sweet chariot; Tale of a little pig; Tearin' out-a wilderness; Ten thousand miles from home; That pretty little girl; This train; Three pigs; Tie-shuffling chant; Tie-tamping chant;.Tone de bell easy; Tragedia de Heraclio Bernal; A trip on the Erie; Tying a knot in the Devil's tail; Un, deux, trois; War song; Way over in the blooming garden; We've done our hitch in hell; Wedlock; Weevily wheat; What folks are made of; When de good Lord sets you free; When I was a cowboy; When I was single; When my blood runs chilly & col'; Whisky Johnny; Wicked Polly; Wild Miz-zou-rye; Willie the weeper; Woe be unto you; Woman blue; The wonderful crocodile; The wreck of the six-wheel driver; The wreck on the C. & O.; Yankee Doodle;.
ISBN:
BRN0546582 (invalid)
Dewey class:
780.1
Language:
English
BRN:
514813
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